FF: Enchantments

Persephone Relaxes

I’ve been pretty tired lately, but stories are the enchantment that recharges my soul.

For those of you unfamiliar with this column, the Friday Fragments lists what I’ve read over the past week.  Most of the time I don’t include details of either short fiction (unless part of a book-length collection) or magazines.  The Fragments are not meant to be a recommendation list.  If you’re interested in a not-at-all-inclusive recommendation list, you can look on my website under Neat Stuff.

Once again, this is not a book review column.  It’s just a list with, maybe, a bit of description or a few opinions tossed in.  And it’s also a great place to tell me what you’re reading. 

Completed:

Paladin’s Strength by T. Kingfisher.  Book two of the Saint of Steel.  Good re-read for a stressful time.

Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold.  Audiobook.  Darker than Shards of Honor, as a tale of political strife should be.

Epitaph in Rust by Timothy Powers.  Very early Powers.  “Timothy” on the jacket, rather than the “Tim” of his later works.  In a future LA, androids police an unsettled city and a young monk finds more than he ever dreamed.  Warning: Very high body count in this one.

In Progress:

Warrior’s Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold.  Audiobook.  Enter Miles who talks his way out of just about everything and has yet to learn about consequences.  Well, he’s only seventeen…

The Collected Enchantments by Theodora Goss.  ARC.  A friend recently recommended Goss’s short fiction, especially her fairytale retellings, so I felt very lucky to score this ARC.

Also:

Newly arrived, my university’s (Fordham, in case you wondered) alumni magazine.